Oscommerce takeover

[mastahscott]

Kinda lame the way the shopping cart takes over , it becomes a web site all unto itstelf. The continue button in the shopping cart should take you back to your web site and does not . the shopping cart keeps you in the shopping cart.

Any one know of a way to stop this and also to make the continue button go back to your web site?

thanks

[vasttech]

osCommerce is a shopping cart so why wouldn't it "takeover" your website? I assume you have an HTML website. Try PayPal if you want a shopping cart like you are referring to.

[mastahscott]

A shopping cart is merely a shopping cart not a website. It should not take over your website. When you hit continue shopping it should go back to your web site not stay in the shopping cart forever. Show me another site that does that? You are evidently not thinking.

 

osCommerce is a shopping cart so why wouldn't it "takeover" your website? I assume you have an HTML website. Try PayPal if you want a shopping cart like you are referring to.

[vasttech]

what's the difference between what:

 

http://demos.oscommerce.com

 

does when you add a product to a cart and when you go to any e-commerce store? You are not making yourself clear in what you are asking. what do you mean it "takes over your website" or "becomes a website unto itself"? You add a product, you either checkout or hit continue shopping. If you hit checkout it takes you through the checkout. If you hit continue shopping it takes you back to the products your store has to offer. No different then going to walmart.com or any other e-commerce site.

 

If it is doing something else for you then maybe you have an error somewhere that is causing a problem?

[mastahscott]

Why have a website then , Ill just create an index file with a go button and it can link to the shopping cart , once there it stays in there anyway with no way back to your web site you created unless you happen to click on that thing " go to the products web page" Continue shopping means just that , not continue in the shopping cart. Hence the continue shopping which should take you back to your web site , so the user can continue in your site. Just like all the professional sites .

 

 

 

osCommerce is a shopping cart so why wouldn't it "takeover" your website? I assume you have an HTML website. Try PayPal if you want a shopping cart like you are referring to.

[b101aa2]

Dunno why i am even commenting here. Maybe it is just cause this person has totally lost the point of what eccomerce is. Most "professional" sites are the same as osc, except osc has umpteen million more things you can do with it for free instead of paying vast amounts of cash to do it.

 

And to point out "Continue Shopping", there is a configuration setting that you can set to either go to the shopping cart to view what is in your basket or not, automatically. It's just that easy.

[vasttech]

@drew

yeah, i am not quite sure why i was wasting my time either. for a minute i thought he possibly had an error in his cart and it wasn't let him "continue shopping" but obviously he has absolutely no clue what e-commerce is or what a shopping cart software is. i.e. my example in my last post to try and clarify for him. oh well, glad it is not just me and i knew i was tired, but didn't think i was that tired :)

[mastahscott]

I was perfectly clear, go to any web site that uses a shopping cart and then go add something to it , then click continue shopping , wow guess what happens ? it magically goes back to the web site where it came from , not back to the shopping cart and its products.

 

 

 

what's the difference between what:

 

http://demos.oscommerce.com

 

does when you add a product to a cart and when you go to any e-commerce store? You are not making yourself clear in what you are asking. what do you mean it "takes over your website" or "becomes a website unto itself"? You add a product, you either checkout or hit continue shopping. If you hit checkout it takes you through the checkout. If you hit continue shopping it takes you back to the products your store has to offer. No different then going to walmart.com or any other e-commerce site.

 

If it is doing something else for you then maybe you have an error somewhere that is causing a problem?

[mastahscott]

Actually your the one with the problem , you seem to have a comprehension problem for real. I didnt put this up here to argue with you , if you cant help then shut up.

I merely asked someone if they knew of a way to do what I wanted to do , I didnt need or ask for your opinion which was useless.

Ill say once more so you can try some comprehension this time, go to a site , put something in the cart , then hit continue shopping , it goes back to your web site , not products and in shopping cart.

@drew

yeah, i am not quite sure why i was wasting my time either. for a minute i thought he possibly had an error in his cart and it wasn't let him "continue shopping" but obviously he has absolutely no clue what e-commerce is or what a shopping cart software is. i.e. my example in my last post to try and clarify for him. oh well, glad it is not just me and i knew i was tired, but didn't think i was that tired :)

[b101aa2]

As mentioned above in my comment. OsCommerce "does" have a simple setting in the Cnofiguration that you can either have it go to the shopping cart or not (Config Setting: Display Cart After Adding Product). This is what you are saying doesn't exist and is why osCommerce is so bad.

 

As an example of something else, when you click Buy Now at Amazon, it then returns back to the primary category listing that the product was in. Amazon probably spent a few million for it to do that. Yes, you can do that to with osCommerce too, but you should read up on what mod needs done for that. OSC just happens to be the only free e-commerce package out there that you can actually do this stuff and it is thousands more features than all others paid for or not.

[mastahscott]

That only lets you view the cart after adding to it or not, but your still in the cart. When your in Walmart and you add something to your cart, do you stay in the cart looking around? no , you go back to the store to continue shopping , back to the store is the website you came from. When you buy something from Amazon , the whole web site is a shopping cart. Its not like the sites where you have a web site that you return to when you continue shopping. I like OSC if I could get it to work right. Im sure I will get it when Im though hacking it. Just would have been nice if someone knew it already which is why I was asking , so , I do appreciate the help and response from you.

thanks again

 

As mentioned above in my comment. OsCommerce "does" have a simple setting in the Cnofiguration that you can either have it go to the shopping cart or not (Config Setting: Display Cart After Adding Product). This is what you are saying doesn't exist and is why osCommerce is so bad.

 

As an example of something else, when you click Buy Now at Amazon, it then returns back to the primary category listing that the product was in. Amazon probably spent a few million for it to do that. Yes, you can do that to with osCommerce too, but you should read up on what mod needs done for that. OSC just happens to be the only free e-commerce package out there that you can actually do this stuff and it is thousands more features than all others paid for or not.

[mastahscott]

Im sure I could get it to do what I want it to do if I could understand why it is when I hit view source in the browser, it shows what I wish I could edit. Yet it says it is the catalog/index.php when you go to edit that , it is not the same at all. Go try it. As a matter of fact it is not any of the files that is showing up in view source , so Im not sure what is going on there at all

 

 

 

As mentioned above in my comment. OsCommerce "does" have a simple setting in the Cnofiguration that you can either have it go to the shopping cart or not (Config Setting: Display Cart After Adding Product). This is what you are saying doesn't exist and is why osCommerce is so bad.

 

As an example of something else, when you click Buy Now at Amazon, it then returns back to the primary category listing that the product was in. Amazon probably spent a few million for it to do that. Yes, you can do that to with osCommerce too, but you should read up on what mod needs done for that. OSC just happens to be the only free e-commerce package out there that you can actually do this stuff and it is thousands more features than all others paid for or not.

[b101aa2]

View Source from a browser is showing the front end html code of the layout and what is displayed. asp, php, ajax, cfm, and the long list of extensions used by websites that use content management and/or draw their information from databases use "some" front end code, but it is overwhelming driven by functions, scripting, and connections. If it weren't, any 9 year old could hack a website into obliveon. But more importantly, the internet would go back to some cheezy static web sites like you would find on yahoo or geocities home pages.

 

To edit the file, you must use an editor with the actual file that you have hosted within your domain. osc gives you the base install to get up and running. The rest is up to you and what you want to do, which is anything from super simple to something on the scale and dynamics of Ebay.

[vasttech]

I must be really tired and i have no clue why i am even continuing this but i'll give it one more try...

 

I merely asked someone if they knew of a way to do what I wanted to do , I didnt need or ask for your opinion which was useless.
Ill say once more so you can try some comprehension this time, go to a site , put something in the cart , then hit continue shopping , it goes back to your web site , not products and in shopping cart.

 

We are trying to determine what you want to do exactly. When i go to Walmart.com and i look around the WALMART.COM website and I PICK A PRODUCT and I HIT ADD TO CART it takes me to a page that shows the items that are in MY CART. NOW, I have 2 options from here. I can CHECKOUT (meaning pay for my items) or I can CONTINUE SHOPPING. If I hit CONTINUE SHOPPING it takes me back to the products page ON THE WALMART.COM website. No other website no other shopping cart nothing, WALMART.COM. If I add another product to my shopping cart it takes me back to the CART page i explained above and I am presented the same two options.

 

Now there is no debating this. You can go to the WALMART.COM website and see this in action 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It always will be that way.

 

Moving to osCommerce... IT DOES THE EXACT SAME THING. Again, we ask, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE and what are you trying to do exactly that is so different then what everyone here is trying to explain to you?

 

People are here to help, not argue, but we can only help when we CLEARLY (key word there) understand what the problem you are having is. You have yet to CLEARLY post the question. Thus you are (a) not getting responses to your posts regarding this (because you asked the same question a couple days ago and someone gave you the same answer we are), and (B) you obviously have yet to find a solution to your problem.

[dynamoeffects]

mastahscott, if you're looking for assistance, this is not the way to go about it. None of your posts have described exactly what the problem is, and when asked for more details about the way your site is designed, you've only insulted the other members who were absolutely polite to you. It's apparent that you don't understand how websites work, so please be more polite when others are trying to help understand your non-technical descriptions and resolve your problems.

[mastahscott]

I thought I explained it clearly , Im not sure what is so hard to understand , If I create a web site ( and I did ) now I add the cart to the web site ( and I did ) someone goes to my website and clicks on the " Buy it now " button , it takes them to the cart , the website is never to be seen again . It stays in the cart even when hitting continue shopping. I didnt ask the shopping cart to become my web site , only a shopping cart. It has no business showing every product . If you physically go to Walmart , put something in your shopping cart. Do you now see every product in the store in your shopping cart? No , you have to go BACK to the store.

 

 

I must be really tired and i have no clue why i am even continuing this but i'll give it one more try...

 

I merely asked someone if they knew of a way to do what I wanted to do , I didnt need or ask for your opinion which was useless.
Ill say once more so you can try some comprehension this time, go to a site , put something in the cart , then hit continue shopping , it goes back to your web site , not products and in shopping cart.

 

We are trying to determine what you want to do exactly. When i go to Walmart.com and i look around the WALMART.COM website and I PICK A PRODUCT and I HIT ADD TO CART it takes me to a page that shows the items that are in MY CART. NOW, I have 2 options from here. I can CHECKOUT (meaning pay for my items) or I can CONTINUE SHOPPING. If I hit CONTINUE SHOPPING it takes me back to the products page ON THE WALMART.COM website. No other website no other shopping cart nothing, WALMART.COM. If I add another product to my shopping cart it takes me back to the CART page i explained above and I am presented the same two options.

 

Now there is no debating this. You can go to the WALMART.COM website and see this in action 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It always will be that way.

 

Moving to osCommerce... IT DOES THE EXACT SAME THING. Again, we ask, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE and what are you trying to do exactly that is so different then what everyone here is trying to explain to you?

 

People are here to help, not argue, but we can only help when we CLEARLY (key word there) understand what the problem you are having is. You have yet to CLEARLY post the question. Thus you are (a) not getting responses to your posts regarding this (because you asked the same question a couple days ago and someone gave you the same answer we are), and (B) you obviously have yet to find a solution to your problem.

[mastahscott]

Actually your wrong , read back , I was insulted first. I asked a simple question. I clearly stated what the problem was . Go re read it . And its apparent that your not trying to help , so please , unless you can help ,. but out.

 

mastahscott, if you're looking for assistance, this is not the way to go about it. None of your posts have described exactly what the problem is, and when asked for more details about the way your site is designed, you've only insulted the other members who were absolutely polite to you. It's apparent that you don't understand how websites work, so please be more polite when others are trying to help understand your non-technical descriptions and resolve your problems.

[mastahscott]

I must be missing something here , Walmarts web site incorporates their cart right in to their site and web pages, My site is separate from my cart, the only time you should see the cart is when you hit the buy it now button or check cart button, the rest of the time you should be looking at the site .

 

 

I must be really tired and i have no clue why i am even continuing this but i'll give it one more try...

 

I merely asked someone if they knew of a way to do what I wanted to do , I didnt need or ask for your opinion which was useless.
Ill say once more so you can try some comprehension this time, go to a site , put something in the cart , then hit continue shopping , it goes back to your web site , not products and in shopping cart.

 

We are trying to determine what you want to do exactly. When i go to Walmart.com and i look around the WALMART.COM website and I PICK A PRODUCT and I HIT ADD TO CART it takes me to a page that shows the items that are in MY CART. NOW, I have 2 options from here. I can CHECKOUT (meaning pay for my items) or I can CONTINUE SHOPPING. If I hit CONTINUE SHOPPING it takes me back to the products page ON THE WALMART.COM website. No other website no other shopping cart nothing, WALMART.COM. If I add another product to my shopping cart it takes me back to the CART page i explained above and I am presented the same two options.

 

Now there is no debating this. You can go to the WALMART.COM website and see this in action 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It always will be that way.

 

Moving to osCommerce... IT DOES THE EXACT SAME THING. Again, we ask, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE and what are you trying to do exactly that is so different then what everyone here is trying to explain to you?

 

People are here to help, not argue, but we can only help when we CLEARLY (key word there) understand what the problem you are having is. You have yet to CLEARLY post the question. Thus you are (a) not getting responses to your posts regarding this (because you asked the same question a couple days ago and someone gave you the same answer we are), and (B) you obviously have yet to find a solution to your problem.

[vasttech]

I thought I explained it clearly , Im not sure what is so hard to understand , If I create a web site ( and I did ) now I add the cart to the web site ( and I did ) someone goes to my website and clicks on the " Buy it now " button , it takes them to the cart , the website is never to be seen again . It stays in the cart even when hitting continue shopping. I didnt ask the shopping cart to become my web site , only a shopping cart. It has no business showing every product . If you physically go to Walmart , put something in your shopping cart. Do you now see every product in the store in your shopping cart? No , you have to go BACK to the store.

 

WOW!!!!!! This is what we have been asking for from the beginning. That is the reason I asked way back at the beginning if you had an HTML site and were trying to add osCommerce to it. If you had said this I could have told you the problem and had you on your way 2 days ago. osCommerce is what they call an e-commerce package. osCommerce is used to build e-commerce sites (which is what you are trying to do). You want to sell a "product". It (and any other shopping cart software except for PayPal) is not designed to be an add-on to your current website. e-Commerce packages are designed to replace your website with a "total" solution. Meaning they provide the structure for an entire website from the homepage all the way through to the checkout. You can customize the look, feel all you want and there are many contributions to help you do so. The forums will also help (but you need to be a little bit more willing to take advice and answer questions then get defensive). We all have problems doing something and that is why we are all here.

 

I have seen some incredible things done with osCommerce and there are a lot of things you can do. It just takes time.

 

Now, going back to your original problem. If you are looking for a simple solution where you have products already on a website you can either convert your website to osCommerce (meaning redo your website or use something like the Simple Template Contribution) OR you could use something like PayPal shopping cart which just adds buttons that you create from within PayPal to your current site and when a user clicks on them it adds the particular product to a shopping cart hosted by PayPal then comes back to your site. PayPal controls everything from there.

 

Now doesn't that help a lot better...

[vasttech]

osCommerce is used to build sites like Walmart where it is a shopping cart website.

[b101aa2]

WOW!!!!!! This is what we have been asking for from the beginning. That is the reason I asked way back at the beginning if you had an HTML site and were trying to add osCommerce to it. If you had said this I could have told you the problem and had you on your way 2 days ago. osCommerce is what they call an e-commerce package. osCommerce is used to build e-commerce sites (which is what you are trying to do). You want to sell a "product". It (and any other shopping cart software except for PayPal) is not designed to be an add-on to your current website. e-Commerce packages are designed to replace your website with a "total" solution. Meaning they provide the structure for an entire website from the homepage all the way through to the checkout. You can customize the look, feel all you want and there are many contributions to help you do so. The forums will also help (but you need to be a little bit more willing to take advice and answer questions then get defensive). We all have problems doing something and that is why we are all here.

 

I have seen some incredible things done with osCommerce and there are a lot of things you can do. It just takes time.

 

Now, going back to your original problem. If you are looking for a simple solution where you have products already on a website you can either convert your website to osCommerce (meaning redo your website or use something like the Simple Template Contribution) OR you could use something like PayPal shopping cart which just adds buttons that you create from within PayPal to your current site and when a user clicks on them it adds the particular product to a shopping cart hosted by PayPal then comes back to your site. PayPal controls everything from there.

 

Now doesn't that help a lot better...

 

 

 

That response is about as thorough as you can get :)

Me, I have about 150 osc packages on different sites all using multi store, so it is all from a single db. This both incorporates selling products and just all around listing. So, osc doesn't just have to be the main layout. Good example, Ebizagenda. Fully integrated inside a very very large one of mine that "also" even uses Amazon's apf systems.

[dynamoeffects]

Wow, compliments to you guys. You all have much more patience than I do.

[vasttech]

years of working phone support for microsoft will harden you to the toughest ones ;)

[mastahscott]

Yes, and Im sorry and appolologize for before.

Thanks

 

 

 

WOW!!!!!! This is what we have been asking for from the beginning. That is the reason I asked way back at the beginning if you had an HTML site and were trying to add osCommerce to it. If you had said this I could have told you the problem and had you on your way 2 days ago. osCommerce is what they call an e-commerce package. osCommerce is used to build e-commerce sites (which is what you are trying to do). You want to sell a "product". It (and any other shopping cart software except for PayPal) is not designed to be an add-on to your current website. e-Commerce packages are designed to replace your website with a "total" solution. Meaning they provide the structure for an entire website from the homepage all the way through to the checkout. You can customize the look, feel all you want and there are many contributions to help you do so. The forums will also help (but you need to be a little bit more willing to take advice and answer questions then get defensive). We all have problems doing something and that is why we are all here.

 

I have seen some incredible things done with osCommerce and there are a lot of things you can do. It just takes time.

 

Now, going back to your original problem. If you are looking for a simple solution where you have products already on a website you can either convert your website to osCommerce (meaning redo your website or use something like the Simple Template Contribution) OR you could use something like PayPal shopping cart which just adds buttons that you create from within PayPal to your current site and when a user clicks on them it adds the particular product to a shopping cart hosted by PayPal then comes back to your site. PayPal controls everything from there.

 

Now doesn't that help a lot better...

[mastahscott]

Well thats what forums are about

 

 

Wow, compliments to you guys. You all have much more patience than I do.